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What's the diff?
David Heinemeir Hansson of 37signals and Ruby on Rails fame spoke at Stanford the other day - Unlearn your MBA!
Good concept of course, provocative title for a talk for business students, and old stuff is old and new stuff is new so hard to build new using old, catchy.
Albeit, a small logical flaw there - the old is there, new is only new in relation to the existing. Better is only better compared to something worse.
Hence, you need to know the old, you need to know it damned well in fact - without that you cannot position your new product or business model. You need to know all about building houses before you can create a better one.
And worse, without knowing the existing you cannot create. Creating is another form of reusing, or rather reusing in another form!
The crux lies in "challenging", learning and then challenge what you learned. Question everything, do not take anything for true or granted. That will create new things and ways.
In other words, not "learn then unlearn" but "learn then challenge".
But alas, I heavily suspect that is a personality trait not easily "learned". You know the types, always sceptical, heretics even. I like heretics, they create the new - and I bet you that they know the existing extremely well!
If you're not into questioning all and everything, perhaps the simple solution is to unlearn, but then you might end up with the shack above.


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Chelsea Werner-Jatzke and James R. Gapinski share their panel picks
Two of our editors share some panels they're excited for. Naturally, we'll be spending a lot of time at The Conium Review table (#2025). But there will be three of us at AWP (Chelsea, James, and Uma), so hopefully we'll all get to attend our panel/presentation wishlists.
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke's top five eight panels (because lists of five or ten are just too neat and tidy for a badass like Chelsea):
- Thursday, 9:00am to 10:15am. History, Speculation, and Invention in Long Form Fiction. (Christopher Robinson, Jan Elizabeth Watson, Jaquira Diaz, Melissa Falcon Field, Sebastian Stockman). Room 200 D&E, Level 2.
- Thursday, 1:30pm to 2:45pm. The Hybrid Book: Publishing Poetry and Art Together. (Allison Campbell, Henry Israeli, Bianca Stone, Ben Fama, Elizabeth Clark Wessel). Room M100 B&C, Mezzanine Level.
- Friday, 9:00am to 10:15am. The Ethics of Book Reviewing. (Eric Lorberer, Stephen Burt, Carolyn Kellogg, Brian Evenson, Rusty Morrison). Auditorium Room 1, Level 1.
- Friday, 1:30pm to 2:45pm. Word Meets Image: The Video Essay. (Ned Stuckey-French, Eula Biss, Kristen Radtke, John Bresland). Room 101 F&G, Level 1.
- Friday, 1:30pm to 2:45pm (competing against the previous panel for attention). Music in Prose: Crafting the Lyric Sentence. (Pearl Abraham, Hanna Pylväinen, V.V. Ganeshananthan, Stephanie Grant, Will Byrne). Room 200 H&I, Level 2.
- Friday, 3:00pm to 4:15pm. Where We Begin to Revise the Poem. (Keetje Kuipers, Erica Dawson, James Harms, John Hoppenthaler, Peter Campion). Auditorium Room 1, Level 1.
- Friday, 4:30 to 5:45pm. Let Us (Not) Teach You a Lesson: A Pleiades Writers' Symposium on Moral Fiction.(Phong Nguyen, Bayard Godsave, Christine Sneed, Seth Brady Tucker, Michael Kardos). Room L100 D&E, Lower Level.
- Saturday, 1:30pm to 2:45pm. Rock and Prose: Musician/Fiction Writers Reflect at the Crossroads. (Steven Ostrowski, Steve Yarbrough, Lynne Barrett, Joe Clifford). Room 208 A&B, Level 2.
James R. Gapinski's top five panels:
- Thursday, April 9th, 3:00pm to 4:15pm. How I Taught Then, How I Teach Now. (Joseph Scapellato, Derek Palacio, Cathy Day, Matt Bell, Jennine Capó Crucet). Auditorium Room 1, Level 1.
- Friday, April 10th, 9:00am to 10:15am. Four Writers of Experimental Fiction Disagree. (Jeff Jackson, Kate Bernheimer, Susan Steinberg, Alan Michael Parker). Room 211 C&D, Level 2.
- Friday, April 10th, 3:00pm to 4:15pm. The Uncanny Reader: the Art of Unease in the Short Story Form. (Marjorie Sandor, Karen Russell, Kate Bernheimer, Steve Stern, Kelly Link). Room 101 H&I, Level 1.
- Friday, April 10th, 4:30pm to 5:45pm. Fail Better: Successful Writers Talk About Failure. (M. Molly Backes, Roxane Gay, Megan Stielstra, Dean Bakopoulos, Rebecca Makkai). Auditorium Room 2, Level 1.
- Saturday, April 11th, 1:30pm to 2:45pm. Weird Science: Strategies to Encourage Innovative Writing in the Workshop (Andrew Altschul, Lucy Corin, Eric Puchner, Melanie Rae Thon, Deb Olin Unferth). Room 200 B&C, Level 2.

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My Porny landed the cover of a tabloid and it has nothing to do with high waisted jeans or getting urinated on! I'm so proud.
This of course is all about her new boyfriend and former NFL player Eric Johnson. Johnson filed for divorce in January. He met Jessica Simpson in May. But already he's taken Porny to meet the family – they just returned from his grandparents' 60th anniversary celebration in Florida. It's only been 5 weeks but apparently Porns is rushing into it, "desperate not to be alone", so desperate that she may be allowing Johnson to control her already.
Great. So much has changed. This must be how she's finding her inner beauty.
I am just as serious about being Jessica Simpson's friend as I am about the wickedness of Hollywood Ebola Paris Hilton who, by the way, has never, ever been tight with Jessica and Jessica has never courted it. Can you imagine? All the mistakes that Porns makes on her own, and if you were to combine that with an Ebola infection? What kind of pants would result from that kind of contamination?
No, Ebola hates Porny, and this is Porny's best feature.
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Are scientists afraid of revolution?
By far, one of the most sensational science stories of 2011 has been that of the allegedly faster-than-light particles reported by the subterranean physics laboratory under the Apennine mountains in Italy. When the news broke this past September, it instantly triggered speculation (some of it a bit overheated) that the discovery might upend physics, force a rewrite of Einstein's theory of special relativity, reveal particles traveling backward in time, and undermine concepts of cause and effect.
Physicists around the world were quick to temper such speculations by pointing out that the reported results were almost certainly a mistake. Last week, however, the Italian team announced that a rerun of the experiments carefully designed to eliminate a source of possible error had only confirmed the earlier results.
Yet physicists aren't satisfied. They keep on citing reasons why the faster-than-light particles would conflict with theory. Even colleagues at the same Italian physics facility have declared that the observations must be wrong.
So why aren't scientists accepting the verification of these seemingly impossible faster-than-light particles? Are they just refusing to acknowledge that the concepts on which they built their careers are wrong? Are they rebelling against a "paradigm shift" in their field, as the historian Thomas Kuhn put it in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions? And does their behavior lend credence to the idea often spread by cold fusion enthusiasts, climate change deniers, intelligent design theorists, UFO believers and others that researchers are more interested in protecting mainstream scientific orthodoxy than in finding the truth?
Not at all. In fact, the scrutiny of these supposedly faster-than-light particles is an example of how science is supposed to work and helps to demonstrate why such conspiratorial criticisms are wrong.
Faster than expected
First, a quick recap of exactly what the strange faster-than-light results are. Fourteen hundred meters beneath the Italian mountain for which it is named, the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso (Gran Sasso National Laboratory) is conducting an experiment called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tracking Apparatus). OPERA detects and measures neutrinos, ethereally aloof particles that have long been understood to shoot unperturbed through matter at the speed of light. OPERA's detectors are set up to catch a beam of neutrinos generated by a powerful accelerator at the CERN laboratory in Geneva. In less than three milliseconds, the neutrinos zip 730 kilometers through the earth's crust, which filters out other, unwanted particles in transit.
Sifting through the data, however, the OPERA team repeatedly saw that the neutrinos appeared to be arriving 60 billionths of a second sooner than expected. They were therefore moving 0.00025 percent faster than light -- a tiny but jarring discrepancy because Einstein's special relativity theory established that no particle could be accelerated to beyond light speed.
It's worth noting that the OPERA experiment is not the first one to find evidence of faster-than-light (or superluminal) neutrinos. Back in 2007, the MINOS neutrino project associated with Fermilab in Illinois published a similarly curious result, but the support for that conclusion was thin and few scientists were persuaded by it. The observations by the OPERA team presented in September were far more robust and compelling (the team claims that the result has a statistical significance of "6 sigma," meaning that the odds of it being a fluke are less than one in half a billion). And the latest, more rigorous repetition of the experiments adds that much more evidence that the effect might be real.
This OPERA ain't over ...
But the OPERA results are still far from constituting proof for superluminal neutrinos, revolutionary as those would be. First, the re-do of the experiment was only a very limited test of the first's findings. One criticism of the first OPERA evidence was that the way of measuring precisely when neutrinos left Geneva and arrived at Gran Sasso was in effect slightly mushy. The improved system in the second round of experiments used sharper, shorter bursts of neutrinos whose timing was more certain.
Yet that change fixes only one source of potential error. Scientists have also called into question, for example, whether relativistic effects in the GPS system that helps to clock the neutrinos might be biasing the measurements, or whether distance between the CERN and OPERA setups might be slightly shorter than believed. (The distance would only have to be off by about 22 meters over the 730-kilometer distance to account for the discrepancy; of course, the distance is supposedly measured to an accuracy within 20 centimeters.) All these possibilities need to be ruled out before the results stand firm.
Another problem is that the OPERA team performed both the initial measurements and the more recent ones. No one questions the credibility or competence of the OPERA researchers, but independent verification is needed because the scientists might unwittingly be introducing the same skew repeatedly into the experiments. Replication of the results by different scientists is the acid test. Indeed, spokespeople for the MINOS facility have said that it may be able to run a preliminary test next year.
For the OPERA results to be strongly vindicated, they need as many independent, rigorous verifications as possible because "extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence," in the words of the late astrophysicist and skeptic Carl Sagan. Frustrated proponents of unorthodox science sometimes complain that Sagan's standard begs the questions of what constitutes "extraordinary evidence," but no matter what, more than one repetition is necessary for something this amazing.
Of course, those same disgruntled and suspicious critics might also claim that all these rationales for more proof are beside the point -- that the ugly truth is the physicists don't want to see the edifice of Einstein's physics toppled. That argument, however, is built on a misunderstanding of why scientists hold the views that they do.
The inconvenient facts
Faster-than-light particles don't seem unlikely just because they are at odds with theories that physicists are loath to give up. Rather, they are at odds with huge amounts of observational and experimental data that gave rise to those theories.
For example, one of the stunning vindications of modern astrophysics involved the supernova 1987A: shortly before that star exploded in 1987, it released a burst of neutrinos precisely when models of stellar collapse predicted that it should. But if neutrinos actually move faster than light by the margin OPERA suggests, those neutrinos should have arrived at Earth four years earlier than they did.
Similarly, the theoretical refutation of the OPERA results that Nobel laureate Sheldon L. Glashow and Andrew G. Cohen have offered is that any superluminal neutrinos from CERN should have shed almost all their energy by the time they reached Gran Sasso because of a phenomenon called bremsstrahlung radiation. Bremsstrahlung is observed whenever charged particles interact with matter.
Perhaps some extenuating complexities can explain these discrepancies: maybe neutrinos from CERN and those from stars move at different velocities, and maybe superfast neutrinos may uniquely avoid radiating away their energy. But for now, the more parsimonious explanation is that the OPERA results are wrong.
What's almost absurd, however, is to think that scientists would steer away from iconoclastic discoveries to protect their professional standing. But the career of any scientist who has the evidence to knock down pillars of his or her field isn't ruined -- it's made.
The physicists who first prove the existence of faster-than-light particles are instantly in the history books. That credential looks pretty good to tenure committees and granting agencies. The same would be true for any climate scientist who could truly, conclusively prove that worries about climate change from industrial greenhouse gases were groundless, or for any biologist who could knock off evolution as the best explanation for living things' traits. They wouldn't be blackballed by their professions: they would be among the most famous scientists alive and able to name their own appointments.
Moreover, revolutions in science aren't just good for the leaders of the revolution. The demonstrated existence of faster-than-light particles would mean that other new physics remains to be discovered, and lots of new work needs to be done to fit the older observations into the new paradigms. Those opportunities would be welcomed by legions of physicists looking to make their mark. Indeed, the OPERA results have already inspired a number of scientific papers.
Einstein's theory of special relativity sits on a pedestal of honor, not on an altar. Plenty of physicists would be glad to knock it off and put something else in its place. But it may take something more substantial than OPERA's superluminal neutrinos to bring it down.
Image: Particle tracks. (Credit: CERN)
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Latest- STDs are on the rise, especially among the young. Health authorities from the UK report a 3% rise in cases of STIs in the past two years and they believe that young adults are responsible for the upward trend.
Two-thirds of new cases of STDs were reported in women under 25. 66% of the new cases of genital warts and 88% of chlamydia were found in young women. "These latest figures show that poor sexual health is a serious problem among the UK's young adults and men who have sex with men," remarked a doctor from the Health Protection Agency.
- A group promoting the legalization of weed paid Facebook roughly $5,000 to run an ad that featured a picture of a marijuana leaf. A week after it went up, Facebook pulled the picture, saying the image violated its policy against promoting smoking. Just Say Now, the pro-pot organization, is now accusing Facebook of censorship.
- A study out of Sweden found that binging on fast food for four weeks is—shocker!—bad for you. The effects of an energy-dense diet can stick with you for years, even after you switch to a healthier plan.
- "Tying the knot is BAD for your sex life," the Daily Mail reports. According to researchers, six out of ten couples believe marriage ruined the excitement of having sex. The survey also found that married couples only do the nasty about once a week. But before you freak out, it seems significant to note that the poll in question was conducted by an extra-marital dating service, LovingLInks.co.uk.
- New guidelines issued by the UK National Institute for Health suggests women with high blood pressure take aspirin from the 12th week of pregnancy onward in order to help prevent complications. Risks that are linked to high blood pressure include pre-eclampsia, premature birth, still birth, and underweight infants.
- Three teenagers who were named on a hit list on Facebook have been killed in the past two weeks in a Colombian town. The hit list was posted on August 17 and told the 69 people listed that they must either leave the town of Puerto Asis or be executed. Police do not know who is behind the list or the murders.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Blackwater USA guards have used deadly force weekly in Iraq and have inflicted "significant casualties and property damage," according to a congressional staff report released Monday that cites internal company and State Department documents.
Blackwater's contractors fired their weapons 195 times -- or an average of 1.4 times a week -- from the beginning of 2005 through the second week of September, the Democratic staff of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found.
In over 80 percent of the cases, Blackwater reports that its forces fired first, according to the staff report.
The committee will hear from Blackwater's CEO Erik Prince on Tuesday. Read Prince's prepared statement (PDF)
Records of the company and State Department show Blackwater's use of force in Iraq has been "frequent and extensive," the report says.
Though Blackwater is authorized to use force only defensively, "the vast majority of Blackwater weapons discharges are pre-emptive, with Blackwater forces firing first at a vehicle or suspicious individual prior to receiving any fire," the report states.
A Blackwater contractor wrote an initial U.S. government report describing contractors' involvement in a September 16 incident in which Iraqi civilians were shot, government and industry sources told CNN.
The Iraqi government claims Blackwater contractors, who were guarding a U.S. diplomatic convoy, killed as many as 20 civilians in western Baghdad's Nisoor Square.
The incident elicited outrage in Iraq and raised questions about the accountability of foreign security personnel in the country who, under an order by the U.S.-led occupation government, are not subject to Iraqi law.
Blackwater said its employees responded properly to an insurgent attack on a convoy, and the State Department "spot report" written by the Blackwater contractor underscores that and doesn't mention civilian casualties.
However, the contractor's account is at odds with Iraqis' version of the incident. A senior Iraqi National Police official participating in the Iraqi governmental probe of the shooting said the Blackwater gunfire was unprovoked and random, killing and wounding several civilians.
Blackwater contractor Darren Hanner drafted the two-page spot report on the letterhead of the Bureau of Diplomatic Security for the embassy's Tactical Operations Center, said a source involved in diplomatic security at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
Hanner, listed on the report as the center's watch officer, was working for Blackwater at the time the report was written -- just after the shooting occurred, said a highly placed industry source. He was to rotate out of Iraq last week, the source said.
The center tracks and monitors all incidents and movements involving diplomatic security missions and has outsourced positions to Blackwater and another private firm, the embassy source said. Watch aftermath video of the shooting obtained by Newsweek »
The State Department is conducting an investigation, and deputy spokesman Tom Casey called the spot report "a first-blush account of those on the scene." He said the "report has no standing whatsoever."
"It was not intended to be used as an analysis, investigation, review or any detailed assessment of the situation. To assert that is untrue," Casey said.
A State Department agent took sworn statements from the participants in the shooting after receiving the spot report, the embassy source said.
A joint U.S.-Iraqi commission is expected to examine security and safety issues and will receive results of the State Department investigation and a separate Iraqi investigation, the U.S. military said.
The senior Iraqi police officer said Blackwater team members were questioned by Iraqi police immediately after the incident. The contractors first said they opened fire in response to a mortar attack, the officer said. However, the contractors then changed their story at least twice during the 90 minutes they were held, the officer said.
Iraqi police released a video of the aftermath of the shooting which shows a car that had damage consistent with a rocket-propelled grenade.
The video shows what appears to be the spent casing of a rifle-fired grenade, and the embassy source said the Blackwater guards were armed with a rifle-fired M-203 grenade.
The embassy source said a New York Times story reporting investigators were told that at least one guard drew a weapon on a fellow guard who did not stop shooting after colleagues called for a cease-fire was "pretty much true."
Blackwater previously denied reports that one Blackwater employee drew a gun on another. Learn more about private contractors working in Iraq »
The embassy source, meanwhile, said Blackwater is suffering a staffing shortage as it tries to meet its mission of guarding U.S. diplomats moving around Baghdad and other sections of Iraq.
Anne Tyrrell, a spokeswoman for Blackwater, denied that assertion.
"To my knowledge that's inaccurate," Tyrrell said. "I would urge caution in trusting the source."
As State Department investigators arrived in Baghdad from Washington to investigate the shooting, many of the guards involved had ended their contracts with Blackwater and were leaving Iraq, the embassy source said, speaking anonymously because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The State Department official said as of Friday all guards that were involved in the incident were still in Iraq, except for one who had to be evacuated for medical reasons.
"It would be hard to do an investigation without the principal players there," the official said, referring to the State Department inquiries into the issue.
"We cannot take anybody out of the country during an investigation without U.S. government approval," Tyrrell said. "It is inaccurate that the 19 men being investigated have left Iraq."
Several of the guards involved in the shooting have requested disability severance and others have not renewed their expiring contracts, the State Department source said. None of those involved are being sent on security missions, he said.
The Iraqi government said it will file criminal charges against the Blackwater employees, according to Iraq's Interior Ministry.
It's not clear how Iraqi courts would attempt to bring the contractors to trial. E-mail to a friend
CNN's Jomana Karadsheh in Baghdad, Zain Verjee in Washington and Suzanne Simons in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Fox television on Tuesday pulled a recent episode of animated series "Family Guy" from television and Internet sites after unrelated clips that were edited together to depict a bombing at the Boston Marathon went viral on the Web.
"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane slammed the mash-up as "abhorrent." It appeared a day after two bombs ripped through the crowd at the finish line of the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding 176.
A Fox spokeswoman said the network had pulled the "Turban Cowboy" episode of the satirical series "Family Guy" from Fox.com and Hulu.com and from being rebroadcast, and that network officials were working with YouTube to take down the edited clips. It was not known who posted them.
The edited video showed two separate clips fused together from the "Turban Cowboy" episode, which aired in March, in which lead character Peter Griffin drunkenly drives over runners in order to win the Boston Marathon.
Later in the episode, in an unconnected storyline, Peter unknowingly becomes friends with an extremist who gives him a cellphone, which Peter calls and explosions are heard.
In the video that went viral, the two scenes were put together to make it appear that the explosions happened at the Boston race.
"The edited Family Guy clip currently circulating is abhorrent. The event was a crime and a tragedy, and my thoughts are with the victims," MacFarlane, who voices characters on the show including Peter, wrote on Twitter.
Television networks and movie studios frequently review material that might be considered sensitive or offensive after national tragedies like the Newton, Connecticut, school shootings in December and Superstorm Sandy in October 2012.
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Upon further reflection, I don't hate my thesis after all
Posted: - Modified: | researchI am officially out of my I-hate-my-thesis phase. It was easy to give
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stress? After all, if it's going to be a big part of my life for the
next few months, I may as well focus on the positive.
And I *do* really like it. I love the feeling of working on something
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And the people I'm working with are actually pretty cool, too.
Also, I'm finally able to download papers from the ACM Digital Library
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Knowing that we're working to a higher standard than some of the
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Foreigners now hold more than $13 trillion in American securities, a record set as the U.S. seeks to assert itself as the safest port in troubled global waters.
China and Japan combined owned more than $3.4 trillion, including $2.4 trillion in debt, a number that has grown since the data set was compiled.
The total value of U.S. stocks and bonds under foreign ownership rose 6.5 percent in 2012, with stocks actually rising more on a percentage basis, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Treasury.
Foreign holdings have more than doubled since 2005 and are getting close to the $15 trillion total size of the U.S. economy
Of the $13.26 trillion total, $4.2 billion was held in stocks, a 10.6 percent increase from 2011. Long-term debt holdings grew to $8.2 trillion, a 6.2 percent annual rise.
(Read More: The Economy May Stink, but the Market Doesn't Care)
Holdings of short-term debt actually contracted to $811 billion, falling 7.6 percent.
The totals compare to about $60 trillion in total U.S. debt and equity holdings, meaning that foreigners hold about 20 percent. The greatest percentage of any class is in marketable Treasurys, which are owned 52 percent by investors outside the U.S.
The move to U.S. assets came as the American stock and bond markets delivered solid returns for the year despite a stubbornly slow economic recovery, political turmoil and headwinds from other shores.
In fact, it may have been that geopolitical turmoil, particularly involving the European sovereign debt crisis and slowing growth in China, that helped buttress foreign money into the country.
(Read More: Tony Blair Warns of 'Fragile' Europe, Harsh Austerity)
Japan leads the way in American holdings with $1.83 trillion, the great majority of which was in bonds. China was second at $1.59 trillion, of which $1.18 trillion was in debt, a number that has increased to $1.22 trillion since the June 30, 2012, cutoff for the data.
Interestingly, the Cayman Islands is the third-biggest holder of securities and the largest overall of stocks, with $516 billion. That is likely due to the attractiveness of the region as a tax haven for American cash.
(Read More: Caribbean Bank Accounts Are Next on IRS Hit List)
The gain in U.S. assets has come with the help of the Federal Reserve. The central bank has been purchasing $85 billion a month in debt, which in turn has helped provide liquidity to the equity markets.
(Read More: Wall Street: Fed Will Print Money Until at Least 2014)
Central banks, though, are getting increasingly more competitive, and the Fed will have plenty of competition this year from global money printers seeking to draw foreign capital.


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Toyota the the US is joining the in-car computer adventure with "Entune", their own take on the apps and smartphone integration game a la Ford Sync. The first apps look solid, but will they be the first to allow user-installed apps?
The first set of apps look like pretty standard (if welcome) fare: Pandora, Bing search, MoveTickets.com. There's even Open Table support to let you book a reservation at a local restaurant as you're driving there.
There's even voice recognition, although that's a feature that's been available to some degree in Toyota's for several years. It also sounds like Toyota will be pulling data for the system via your smartphone's data plan, much like Ford has done with Sync, negating the need for a car-only data plan like some upscale marques have required.
All in all it's a welcome addition for the world's largest car maker—or one-of…I can never keep track of who's on top these days—but the key to any of these sort of systems is how easy they are to operate when you're on the go. Initial screenshots are clean and simple, but it will be impossible to pass judgement until we get a chance to actually try Entune in action.


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The French politician who said Indian steel company ArcelorMittal should leave the country has told CNBC that his government is only acting like U.S. President Barack Obama.
Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg, a member of the governing Socialist party, caused controversy last week when he said that the Indian company, which employs close to 20,000 people in France, should leave after it said it would have to close down a factory.
The French government announced on Thursday that it could nationalize the factory in question, with backing from an unnamed businessman.
The news raised the specter of the nationalizations of the early 1980s, which were instigated by Hollande's predecessor Francois Mitterrand.
Montebourg told CNBC after a meeting with trade unions in Paris: "Barack Obama's nationalized. The Germans are nationalizing. All countries are nationalizing. I've also noticed the British nationalized 6 banks."
(Read More: Is Obama a Socialist?)
Montebourg is believed to be referring to the takeover of struggling automakers by the U.S. government earlier in the financial crisis.
Lakshmi Mittal, the tycoon who leads ArcelorMittal, met with Montebourg's boss, Socialist President Francois Hollande earlier in the week, but the men appeared to have failed to resolve the issue.
(Read More: Can France Bid Au Revoir to Mittal?)
Montebourg brushed off comparisons with that era. He said: "It's a very good sign to send out (to investors). Nationalizing is a very modern step to take. Especially when you not only nationalize losses but profits as well, when you make public/private partnerships. This is our strategy.
"The strategy we're putting forward is extremely modern and adapted to the current times of crisis. It's a way of making the economy work in the interests of industry, more than just helping the financial sector," he added.
He declined to answer a question about comments from Mayor of London Boris Johnson, who told Indian businessmen earlier this week to come to London instead of France.
Hollande, who is perceived as more to the right of the Socialist party than Montebourg, is currently trying to push through reforms to help reinvigorate growth and stimulate the labor market. He has so far proved to be less left-wing than many in the market feared, and there has been cautious welcome for a high-profile competitiveness report and better-than-expected economic growth. (Related: How to Attract Capital)
Still, policies such as a maximum 75 percent income tax rate have raised eyebrows among the country's wealthy.
Written by Catherine Boyle, CNBC. Twitter: @cboylecnbc.


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Reid My MindRadio – Fears of a Blind Nomad
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
When I heard about Jim Paradiso, I had to find out more. He's a Blind Nomad… I had to hear his story. Turns out it's so much more than that… he's forcing you to challenge what you think is possible. That is, if you believe!
Take a listen and let me know; do you believe?
Show the transcript
What's good fine people.
I have a lot to say about this episode so I'm just going to get right into it.
Well of course after the intro…
The best way to kick this one off…
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By the way what I'm about to tell you is true and I don't give a damn if you believe it or not!
Any story that begins like that, well, you know it has to be good. whether it's true or not, that's for you to decide.
That voice you just heard is Jim Paradiso.
you can call Jim, a nomad!
A modern day nomad refers to people; often those with an online virtual business, where one's income isn't tied to a brick and mortar location.
Earning 60K for example and living outside of the US on various continents can really stretch that dollar.
That's not exactly Jim's situation. He's been living a version of this lifestyle for over a year now and is currently in Loja, Ecuador.
According to Jim;
The adventure is the journey
With that said, let's begin with the journey that lead Jim to Loha Ecuador.
I was talking to a friend, he was moving to Vilcabamba and I'd never heard of Vilcabamba and I said it sounds like a good name so I left to go to Vilcabamba. Which is a fifteen hour ride on a bus from. Manta to Vilcabamba. So it took me four weeks to get there.
I get into Cuenca and of course with me now I'm traveling alone for the first time. And I'm up in this Hostel, I said well OK, so I posted on FB { I'm in Cuenca, what's there to do for a blind man traveling on his own?
Ok, , the fact that Jim is blind for most people probably makes the idea of him living a life as a nomad and traveling in unknown places, is maybe;
Very frightening?
Well, then let's pause on the journey through Ecuador for a moment and hear what some may think is an unbelievable adventure of Jim's vision loss
and the series of preceding events .
I had an aneurism Thirteen years ago on my left eye. And they tried to fix it and they screwed up the eye entirely. Then three years ago I woke up one morning and I had an aneurism in the other I. And I went through ocular injections and everything else that went with it and I had a bad reaction to the ocular injections which caused me to have a stroke.
so I was living with a girlfriend who decided she didn't want to be with a blind man.
I ended up homeless. I was a month from being blind enough to qualify for Social Security. I was unemployed and Basically I was living on the couch of a motor home
that belong to a friend of mine who was in a retirement community.
So I get a phone call from my brother who was living in Ecuador and he said Well Linda is looking for a manager for a B&B would you like the job? I said, well what's the pay. Room and board and fifty dollars a week.
Ok, I could be homeless in a motorhome in Florida or I could be homeless on a beach in Ecuador?
kind of a no brainer to me.
TR in conversation with JP:
and I'm sure fifty dollars is different in Ecuador than in Florida.
It doesn't make any difference as long as you got food and shelter who cares about the rest of it. I live very inexpensively because that money doesn't mean anything to me anymore.
I went for a pedicure because I couldn't see my toe nails and I was catching them on my socks and when she cut the calluses off the bottom my feet so when I went for a walk on the beach I ended up getting third degree burns on the bottom of my feet.
I picked up a flesh eating bacteria and I had to be medivac the act from Ecuador to the United States after two operations down here and five days in the hospital.
The flesh eating bacteria that I picked up is usually fatal within seventy two hours and the only cure for it is amputation; actually they call it debridement which really is amputation. They have to remove all of the bacterial growth because it doubles in size every nine minutes.
Once I got back into the United States they put me in the teaching hospital in Shands of which this was the second case they had in fifty years of this particular virus. They amputated two toes and debride most of my foot and then they had to regrow it in an oxygen rich environment.
This took ten weeks and then they put me in a nursing home for a month. Rehab they call it but it actually was a nursing home.
While I was there I had an abscess on the back of my head so I went to the doctors when I had my foot looked at and they slants the abscess and said this isn't right so they sent me to a Dermatologist.
Well when they slants it they gave me MRSA – which is another flesh eating bacteria. While I was at the doctor's they said oh I don't like these moles on your back let me have them biopsied. Well as it turned out I had skin cancer. They had to operate on my back and removed the skin cancer. Which I thought we were just going to remove a mole but they ended up doing 19 stitches on each side and trenched both sides of my back. Then they had to put me on different antibiotics in order to kill the MRSA they gave me and then when they removed that they discovered it was a tumor. Then they had to remove that. And that was in six months.
At that point I was afraid of dying.
When I finally got settled with Social Security Disability, I Flew back to Ecuador.
TR in conversation with JP:
Because my kids wanted to put me in a retirement villa.
TR in conversation with JP:
How many kids do you have?
Again that's an odd story…
I have four kids but they're not mine.
TR in conversation with JP:
Oh Ok!
My ex-wife's two kids from her previous marriage.
And I have her ex-husband's two kids from his previous marriage.
TR in conversation with JP:
OK that's a new situation!
You have her ex-husband's kids? (laughing!)
They all consider me dad and I was always there for them.
By the way, have you ever heard a story this ridiculous?
TR in conversation with JP:
so many people stories that I have heard of do have like one thing on top of the other you know but this flesh eating viruses and tumors, yeah… you're winning!
– laughs!
Now, returning to Ecuador Jim met up with a friend.
He didn't have any money and I said OK I need someone to travel with because blind people can't travel alone!
Well I spent three weeks in the Andes and then two weeks in the Galapagos. Then we came back and we went up to Colombia – we spent three months in Colombia. Then we took a cruise and went from Cartagena through Panama, Costa Rica, Jamaica and Grand Cayman. And then circled around back and then went hiking in the mountains and Colombia
That friend Jim was traveling with was 42 and at the time Jim was 60.
Plus he was still recovering from flesh eating diseases,
multiple cancer surgeries and newly adjusting to blindness.
He learned a valuable lesson.
There are some things that are worse than traveling alone and that's traveling with somebody else!
So at Christmas I flew back to Manta.
TR in conversation with JP:
So Jim can I ask you… you just
shared all of that … I mean you talked about a cruise and
flying to the Galapagos and stuff so you're financing that on the Social Security?
TR in conversation with JP:
OK! And at this point you're not paying rent or anything like that just traveling so you're a Nomad.
Right, I'm a Nomad, I'm homeless.
I'm doing this on $1,127 a month.
So anyways when I got back to Manta I had infected my foot again and I had to stay off it for six weeks which drove me nuts.
So I was talking to a friend he was moving to Vilcabamba and I'd never heard of….
That brings us back to Jim's journey.
When we left off, he was on his way to Vilcabamba
and stopped in a Hostel in Cuenca
where he posted the question
In Cuenca, what's there to do for a blind man traveling on his own?
One guy suggested why don't you head up to Ingaperka which is a Aztec ruin in the Andes which would be Eastern Ecuador.
So off he went to Ingaperka to find the ancient Inca Ruins.
Now if you're thinking Jim is probably fluent in Spanish
or of course everyone speaks English,
well you're wrong.
In fact, most people in the town of Ingaperka speak a dialect of the Incas.
The bus let me off in the middle of this town. I have no clue where I am I finally find somebody that speaks about four words of English.
And she asked me what I was doing and I say I was looking for the ruins. And she says ruins Cinco. I said Cinco kilometers. She says no Cinco minutos. I said where and she say aqui and pointed me to a road and so I walk up the road. I walk into this beautiful state park.
After receiving a tour of the ruins
well, it's time for Jim to begin making his way to Vilcabamba.
He catches one bus to Cuenca and another to Loja.
Which is where he of course posts to Facebook:
What's there to do for a blind man travelling alone through Loja?
Well this woman posts back well I have these two. English students who
are blind and would like to meet you. They're sisters. So I meet them for coffee they come in on the arm of somebody crab walking because they don't travel alone they're in their thirty's and they've been blind all their life.
They sit down and we're talking and one of them looks at me and says who are you traveling with? I said nobody.
She Says Do you speak Spanish? I said no she said you can't do that! I said yeah, I can!
By now you probably get the impression that the response, yes I can,
that's something Jim is quite used to saying!
I'm here!
She takes me over to the elementary school which I'll tell you is like a prison. Two meter high concrete walls surrounding it with broken bottles over the top of it and they're all concrete bunkers and it's just… it's got mold it's just… it's a horrible place.
TR in conversation with JP:
Is that specifically just for blind children or is that…
Yes, it's specifically for blind children. And there are residents there and there are day people that come from the city and this is the only blind school for elementary school children in the area. And she tells me that they don't teach mobility there because they had to cut they cut their budget and the person they cut from the budget was the mobility trainer.
Now my experience with mobility training is I am blind
and I am mobile. There are my qualifications for the position… so now I'm the mobility trainer.
See what I mean by saying yes…
Jim not only said yes to teaching others who are blind to use the
white cane and more, but he has a pretty packed schedule.
I'm working four days a week from eleven to one at the elementary school. I work five days a week teaching conversational English at a college and I work two nights a week teaching mobility and technology at the high school.
I'm starting a nonprofit… We've got a doctor. Who is volunteering his time services to do prosthetic eyes on the kids that have missing eyes plus I have the Go Fund Me going…other than that I'm not really that busy!
That Go Fund me is a campaign to raise money to purchase white canes,
iPhones or iPads to provide children with GPS capabilities
in order to improve their mobility.
You can find more at:
If you're wondering what are the living conditions for a blind nomad
in Ecuador
Jim says his apartment in Ecuador
would probably rent for several thousand in New York City.
It's the studio penthouse with a balcony view of the mountains. Glass all the way around its fully furnished. It has a hot tub, a walk in shower. The bathroom is ten by twenty and I pay $350 a month for it including utilities.
Jim's a volunteer! He's not paid for any of his work.
Well not in the traditional sense!
What I get from a kid who comes up and hugged me. You know – I've got children that actually… they don't speak the language that I speak and they cannot express themselves on how much they really appreciate me.
I get people hugging me all the time. That's what I get paid in!
While I still have work to do here I'm not leaving. It's just different it's a different lifestyle I found a place where they need me so I'm staying. When they don't need me any more I'll go somewhere else.
TR in conversation with JP:
How do you feel today about everything that happened? That whole crazy story you told me.
I will tell you something that you will very seldom hear from a blind person.
Going blind was the greatest opportunity of my life! Without that none of this would have happened. And that's how I look at it.
And isn't that what it boils down too!
How we choose to look at it!
Jim is actually looking for an assistant volunteer
to join him in Ecuador.
He needs help with some of those things he's doing like
teaching mobility and technology.
He can provide room and board, but
the candidate needs to pay for their own travel.
Oh, yes, and the candidate must be blind.
Jim can be contacted directly through his Facebook page titled:
Blind Jim Can't do That!
(Yeh, I can!)
I'm Thomas Reid
for Gatewave Radio,
[JP: I don't give a damn if you Believe it or not ]
Audio for Independent Living.
I have never described myself as a journalist.
In fact, I make sure to say, I'm not.
I am a self-described Advocate who uses audio to make a point.
I don't hide my opinion,
I choose the stories I want to tell and have a real solid perspective.
The idea of a journalist is that they supposedly don't have that bias.
I don't believe that at all!
However, A journalist would have done some real fact checking of Jim's story.
They would have contacted various sources to try and confirm
his account of the events.
I am a New Yorker,
I instinctively don't believe you!
It's something I am really trying to rid myself of but it's so ingrained in my being it's really hard to separate.
I know there are some who will listen to this and not believe him.
Some will assume he has some residual vision – and say
that's the reason he can do it.
Jim does have a bit of light perception which allows him
to see shadows out of a part of one eye.
Some will think it's his nature.
Well, it's probably fair to say Jim is something of an adventurer.
Before losing his sight he was a professional scuba diver diving throughout
the US and Caribbean.
That included salvage work for insurance companies, body recovery,
owning his own diving school and treasure diving in the Caribbean.
So here's the thing…
I do believe Jim.
Jim is 100 percent telling the truth about the fears of a blind traveler.
Those fears are not just contained within the person who is blind.
You know that because as you were listening you felt uncomfortable.
You know you did.
I don't care if you are sighted or
any degree of blind, you felt it!
I felt it! And feeling that way upset me.
I travel alone to different states but I had a fully planned itinerary.
Jim's story made me challenge how I look at the world
and what I really believe is possible.
During our conversation a woman interrupted Jim and I asked him to explain what happened.
some woman just walked up to me and said You're an inspiration to the people down here. I overheard your conversation.
I have people walking up to me on the street constantly doing that.
TR in conversation with JP:
How does that feel?
I don't think I'm anything special.
I think everybody has it within themselves just that I choose to do that my question to people is Why don't you choose to do it.
There are so many people out there that don't want to leave their house and it bothers me.
TR in conversation with JP:
I've met so many blind people in my. Limited time being blind. And most of them tell me that they have limitations on everything they do.
You know they tell me it's OK that you can do this but I can't and then they give me a list of reasons why they can't.
TR in conversation with JP:
What are some of those reasons?
Oh I could get hurt I could fall down. I could get lost.
So what's the big deal you don't think I get lost you don't think I fall down you don't think I get hurt?
I think it's fair to acknowledge that the emotions behind these thoughts are real. But Fear you may have heard
is an acronym for False evidence appearing real.
You know what else is real!
Our perspective!
And we can actually control that!
I survived cancer. I'm blind. I survived the flesh eating bacteria What are you going to do to me that God hasn't done already? It's true! What fear do I have now. They told me I was going to die on three different occasions.
TR in conversation with JP:
you know you're going to go at some point.
Right, we're all gonna go some time!
I'd rather go out swinging then go out crying.
There is nothing holding you back but yourself.
I was at a Blind I Can meeting I can do is what they call it…
And they were talking about having an outing and they were talking about going out to lunch.
I mean, what is going to lunch proof for a blind person. Everybody eats!
They asked me what my idea of a good outing was…
There's a place in Florida in Orlando called Machine Gun America. It's automatic weapons… what the hell could possibly go wrong!
TR in conversation with JP:
Laughing!… I love it!
Make yourself feel alive.
You're dead, nobody's told you!
Jim, like many who lose their vision later in life, especially over the age of 55, never even had real mobility training.
My mobility training consisted of twenty minutes.
I learned everything on the internet and by myself reading books so when
they finally picked up my paperwork they put me through … they put me in front of a mobility trainer who told me that in familiar surroundings I was Ok, but I needed work in unfamiliar surroundings.
So I was hiking staying at an Echo lodge called Ukuku in Columbia it's outside of Ibagué.
It's a two kilometer hike up a mountain across three rivers. To get to this and the last river you crossed There's a log and you got to balance on a log to cross the river.
Now do you know the proper caning technique for crossing a log bridge?
TR in conversation with JP:
Laughing… No I do not!
I think mine would be to straddle the log and then slowly go across. That would be my technique.
But that's just me!
So I had to call back to the person who was in charge of the mobility training and I said, hey Tom what's the proper caning techniques for crossing a log bridge?
TR in conversation with JP: To the avenue.
Oh my gosh! Did they have any advice for you?
Oh hell no.
But don't get it twisted,
Jim isn't some sort of blind Evel Knievel.
(If you're younger than 40 Google him!
Jim is practical about his travel.
I have a theory. It's really simple when I get to a town if I check into a Hostel I get the business card of the Hostel, put it in my wallet.
If I get really lost I take the business card and I give it to a cab driver and I ask the cab driver donde esta aqui… where is this? And he takes me there.
That practical advice goes beyond travel…
I'm trying to convince people that just because you have a problem doesn't mean you can't get your ass out and do something.
I listen to people tell me they can't get a job. Well, go volunteer and get some experience!
I'm hoping to speak with Jim again.
And who knows maybe that will be in person, in Ecuador.
There are links on Reid My Mind.com to both the Go Fund Me and his Facebook page if you want to communicate directly with Jim.
I usually close with my reminder for you to subscribe to the podcast…
well today, I'm closing out with part of a favorite quote taken from Jim's Facebook page.
Maybe someone will find it helpful… I think Jim may have.
Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living."
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Some of my favorite images from A Day for Daisies are Tammy's mermaids! They are always so breathtaking! This new release "Under the Sea" is just spectacular! These playful images will delight the recipient of any project made with them, young and old!
Our challenge today us a color challenge, summer~y colors to chase away the cold weather:
And here are the beautiful creations of our design team...
A big CONGRATS to our "Flocking" challenge winner... love her project...
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Richard H. Goodwin (1910-2007), a pioneering national leader in the field of land preservation and an accomplished botanist.
In 1944, Professor Goodwin accepted a position as professor of botany at Connecticut College and became director of the College's Arboretum. His interest in conservation flourished, as he recognized land ownership was the most effective method of preservation. During his 30-year tenure, the Arboretum expanded from 90 acres to more the 40. Today the Arboretum is an important natural laboratory for Connecticut College students. This protected space also is an invaluable buffer that preserves the College's beautiful campus.
Professor Goodwin was active in land conservation beyond the borders of the campus, from California to his own backyard in East Haddam, CT. He was an early member of the Nature Conservancy and served twice as its president. In 1964, when elected to his second term, he turned the Arboretum over to fellow Connecticut College botanist William Niering, ended his research work and focused his efforts on conservation. He is credited with transforming the Nature Conservancy from a regional group with 2,000 members to one of the nation's top conservation organizations.
Professor Goodwin remained an energetic and inspiring teacher, and in 1968 he was a leader of the effort to establish a major in human ecology (now environmental studies) at Connecticut College. The program, linking the study of science and public policy, was one of the first of its type nationally at an undergraduate institution. The College's Goodwin-Niering Center for Conservation Biology and Environmental Studies was named in honor of these two influential professors.


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[Jochem] wrote in to share a neat time lapse camera dolly he constructed out of Lego bricks. He is a big fan of the two-axis panning time lapse effect where the camera moves while recording images. He figured it would be easy enough to construct one of his own, so he dug out his pail of Lego and got to work.
The rig consists of a stationary motor platform which pulls a movable sled using a simple gear and string. The motor platform is controlled by an Arduino, which pulls the movable sled along every so often, snapping pictures along the way. [Jochem's] Nikon D80 supports shutter release via IR, so he programmed the Arduino to send a quick IR pulse each time it has finished moving the dolly.
The rig looks like it works pretty well as you can see by the video below, but [Jochem] says that it still needs a bit of work. We just can't wait to see what other time lapse movies he puts together once he finds an "interesting" time lapse subject.
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Community News (V13-I51)
Salman Khan, of Khan Academy, is commencement speaker at MIT
Laurels keep on coming the way of Khan Academy founder Salman Khan. He has now been selected as the commencement speaker at his alma mater MIT's commencement ceremonies in June 2012. According to the student newspaper he will be the youngest commencement speaker in at least 30 years.
Salman Khan obtained two bachelors and a master's degree from MIT before finishing his MBA from Harvard.
The hugely popular website now hosts over 2700 instructional videos in topics ranging from basic algebra to thermodynamics to art history, in addition to online exercises and drills.
Khan Academy, which offers its services for free, is supported by donations; among others, Google has promised to contribute $2 million, while the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed to $1.5 million.
Muslim run food pantry in Bronx to close
BRONX,NY–A food pantry run by Muslims in Bronx will close unless they receive a rush of donations. The Muslim Women's Initiative for Research and Development has been feeding more than 10,000 people through its two pantries which have been serving as a lifeline to the needy and destitute. But the current economic downturn combined with an increase in requests are taking its toll on the initiative.
'A 70% slump in donations and a more than 50% increase in demand for services this year has put the organization $48,000 in the hole,' said its executive director Nurah Ama'tullah in an interview to the Daily News.
"This is very important for me,†said Antonia Cruz, 52, an out-of-work mother of five. "The food is very good. I don't have public assistance. I hope they don't close.â€
MWIRD can be contacted at 718-960-2262 / 1-917-529-5242 or via email firstname.lastname@example.com
Irfan Khan joins Phoenixville School Board
PHOENIXVILLE,PA–Irfan Khan took his seat as the new member of the Phoenixville School Board on December 5. He was elected unopposed in October. His term lasts four years and he said he is looking forward for productive term.
Khan has extensive experience in the area of finance and would be able to provide a vast knowledge of management of funds and investments to the local school board, according to an endorsement he received from the Democratic Committee.
Khan has served as a volunteer with a number of charitable organizations in the greater Phoenixville area.
Tri-Faith Initiative of Omaha makes historic land purchase
OMAHA– Representatives of Temple Israel, the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska, the American Institute of Islamic Studies and Culture (AIISC) and the Tri-Faith Initiative of Omaha today announced each of the four entities has purchased land at 132nd and Pacific Streets in Omaha. The four parcels, totaling approximately 35 acres, will be the future site of the Tri-Faith neighborhood.
This unique project, the first of its kind in the world, deliberately co-locates a synagogue, church and mosque. The site plan also includes aTri-Faith Center with social, educational and conference facilities enabling global study and communication.
"Experience teaches us that interaction can transform intolerance, ignorance and fear into understanding, respect and trust,†said Bob Freeman, Tri-Faith Initiative Board Chairman. "These basic values are shared by the three Abrahamic faiths and are rooted in our Midwestern culture.â€
The Tri-Faith Initiative and the three religious groups each raised funds and purchased their own parcel of land. Additional funds will be raised to underwrite design and construction costs. The first building is expected to be completed in 2013.


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ACS News Service Weekly PressPac: April 04, 2012
Greening up the blue dye in jeans, police uniforms and the red, white & blue
"Into the Blue"
Chemical & Engineering News
Efforts are underway to develop a more environmentally friendly process for dyeing denim with indigo, the storied "king of dyes," used to the tune of 50,000 tons annually to color cotton blue jeans and hundreds of other products. That effort is the topic of an article in the current edition of Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN). C&EN is the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society.
In the article, C&EN Assistant Managing Editor Michael McCoy notes that concerns about the environmental effects of indigo represent a modern concern about an ancient product. Indigo produces a rainbow of hues, ranging from deep navy to pale pastels. For centuries, the primary source of indigo was branches of a bush native to India. In 1878, German chemist and Nobel laureate Adolf von Baeyer made the first synthetic indigo, but the process was too expensive. It took chemical manufacturer BASF years to find a practical process for making the dye, and that happened only because of a lucky accident in which a lab worker broke a mercury thermometer, and the mercury catalyzed a reaction to make the dye.
The story describes how a partnership between the dye manufacturer DyStar and Swiss startup RedElec Technologie may be the beginning of a new revolution in indigo dyeing that will improve its environmental profile. To get indigo dye to attach to denim and other fabrics requires chemical reactions before and after the dye impregnates the cotton fibers. Even with modern improvements to the technique, the process produces large amounts of waste. The article highlights a new approach designed to achieve a long-standing goal of eliminating the need for sodium hydrosulfite in the dyeing process. Doing so would green up the indigo dyeing process and stop a water pollution problem at its source.
Science Inquiries: Michael Woods, Editor, 202-872-6293
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The Biggest Loser trainers looked aghast when an emaciated Rachel Frederickson took the stage in this season's finale. The winner of the show had lost a record 60 percent of her body weight (155 pounds), putting her BMI below a level that doctors consider healthy. Now, in a new interview with People magazine, Frederickson concedes she may have taken her training regimen too far.
"Maybe I was a little too enthusiastic in my training to get to the finale," she says in the interview published Wednesday. Frederickson is now 5'4″ and 105 pounds (down from 260), putting her BMI at 18.0. Doctors consider below 18.5 BMI to be underweight, and the fashion industry in places like Israel and Madrid forbid models with a BMI under 18.5 from walking the runway.
Frederickson told People that for three months before the show's finale, she worked out for six hours every day and stuck to a 1,600 calories-per-day diet.
When Frederickson revealed her new figure in the final episode of this season, fans took to social media to complain that the show had pushed her too far. Frederickson didn't look healthy but dangerously skinny, they said. Twitter and health blogs speculated that Frederickson had likely developed an eating disorder in trying to win the $250,000 prize money. It wouldn't be the first time: Kai Hibbard, who was a finalist on the show's third season, told Jezebel that competing on the show had given her an eating disorder.
But when People asked Frederickson if she had an eating disorder, she just said, "I am very, very healthy."
The show's producers are backing up up Frederickson. "Rachel passed all the required medical tests ensuring she was healthy," said Dave Broome, the show's executive producer. The production team closely monitors contestants throughout their time on the show to ensure that they don't go to extreme measures to win, Broome said.
Still, Frederickson's trainer Dolvett Quince said he was "shocked" when he saw her on stage. "The first thing that went through my mind was, 'That's just too much,'" he said.
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Timeline of Te'o quotes in hoax story
All-American linebacker Manti Te'o talked to, and about, someone posing as Lennay Kekua online and on the phone in late 2011 and 2012. After media were told Kekua died of leukemia last September, Te'o talked about her with reporters numerous times. This is a chronology of how the fake girlfriend story grew, based primarily on Te'o's comments in social media and interviews.
May 13, 2012 - From Te'o's Twitter account: ''Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.'' Proverbs 31:10 (hash)LMK
July 23 - From Te'o's Twitter account: mteo-5 Manti Te'o Be strong. Be brave. Never give up. (hash)3words (at)LennayKay
Sept. 13 - Asked by reporters, Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly says Te'o will play against Michigan State that Saturday despite the deaths that week of two people close to him. Media reports the next day identify the two as his grandmother and his girlfriend, Lennay Kekua. Public records confirm that his grandmother, Annette Santiago, died Sept. 11.
Sept. 15 - Te'o has 12 tackles and breaks up two passes and the 20th-ranked Fighting Irish win 20-3 at No. 10 Michigan State. Te'o says afterward ''I lost two women that I truly love'' and that he had ''my girlfriend's family around me.''
Sept. 23 - In a one-on-one interview with Sports Illustrated, Te'o talks at length about his relationship with Kekua and her many health issues, making only one vague reference to meeting her for the first time in California in 2009. ''We met just, ummmm, just she knew my cousin. And kind of saw me there so. Just kind of regular.'' He told SI they had been dating for a year. ''Oct. 15 was the official date. Of last year. I've known her for four years. So we've been friends.'' A transcript of the interview was posted Thursday.
Oct. 1 - A Sports Illustrated cover story describes how Te'o received a call from Kekua's older brother informing him of her death. Te'o says: ''My girlfriend always told me, `Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'''
Oct. 3 - Te'o says at a media availability that during the walk-through before the Irish's Sept. 22 game against Michigan, he asked what time it was and realized Kekua's casket had been closed a minute earlier. He says she wanted him to skip her funeral to play. He had two interceptions in that 13-6 victory.
Oct. 12 - A South Bend Tribune article, based on information from Te'o's father, describes how Te'o and Kekua met at a 2009 game at Stanford. Te'o's father, Brian, says she would visit him in Hawaii.
Oct. 12 - From Te'o's Twitter account: Today is October the 12th! A month ago my life changed dramatically! Thank you for all your love and support! Day by day! (hash)574L
Nov. 14 - In an Associated Press story, Te'o says that ''every morning I wake up and my girlfriend is not on the phone. It reminds me that she's gone. That's the hardest part.''
Dec. 8 - South Bend television station WSBT shoots video of Te'o saying in a pre-Heisman interview in New York, ''I lost both my grandparents and my girlfriend to cancer.'' That's two days after the date given by Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick for when Te'o found out about the hoax.
Dec. 9 - At the Lott Impact Awards dinner, Te'o says that Kekua ''made me promise, when it happened, that I would stay and play.''
Jan. 5 - At the media day before the BCS title game, Te'o talks about his travails during the season, saying, ''My team was always there for me, and my family was always there for me.''


text: OpinionEditorials Editorial: Cannabis Qualifiers By Steve Mosco - August 11, 2017 0 52953 Facebook Twitter Google+ Pinterest WhatsApp The state Health Department recently announced that Long Island will receive four more medical marijuana dispensaries, with two coming to undisclosed locations in each county sometime in the near future. According to officials, opening these dispensaries will expand access to those who need marijuana for medical reasons, while ensuring the product is manufactured by academically minded professionals in the field of medicine. That's all well and good, but the state's version of "accessible medical marijuana" lacks in two crucial categories: It is not exactly marijuana and it is only relatively accessible. As the law currently prohibits smokable marijuana, the cannabis used in the state's version of the medicine comes in liquid form, with vapor and pill variations soon to be synthesized. Additionally, the medical marijuana offered at the Island's two current dispensaries costs anywhere between $100 to $300. And, keep in mind, those prices are subject to drastically change, depending on how the Republican-led House, Senate and White House decide to dismantle health care as it's currently constituted. Also, many ailments that could be helped by medical marijuana—like PTSD—are not on the roster of qualified conditions. Governor Andrew Cuomo has shown much trepidation in accepting medical marijuana at this most basic first step in New York State, only acquiescing to the concept in 2014, while remaining hesitant to outright legalize recreational marijuana even as neighboring states continue to do so. Citizens of the state should have full access to real, plant-form medical marijuana for the host of ailments cannabis has been shown to treat. Additionally, New York should move forward and join other progressive states in legalizing recreational marijuana for the potential economic boom alone. Our society is so quick to glorify the consumption of alcohol, with the governor himself providing incentives for breweries to open in the state, even with the known deadly risk factors. All the while marijuana remains completely dismissed as a dangerous "gateway drug." The Reefer Madness scare tactics of the 1930s still seem to be in full effect. —Steve Mosco Source: http://hicksvillenews.com/2017/08/10/editorial-cannabis-qualifiers/


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I have just read a beautiful novel about a real person. In The Girl in White, the English poet Sue Hubbard has written an imagined life of the German expressionist artist, Paula Modersohn-Becker; it's an art form with the unattractively scientific sounding handle 'biofiction'. I already knew a little bit about Paula's work, but from a historical perspective: after her premature death in 1907 her work was denounced by the Nazis as degenerate. What I did not know was how she was in fact just beginning to find her confidence as an artist after an intense inner struggle to balance her many roles as daughter, mother, wife – and, above all, painter. In trying to live independently and survive on her earnings in an intensely male dominated world, she was ahead of her time. This was little more than a century ago but in some ways the difficulties she faced appear medieval, in others merely variations on the same struggle many women still face today.
Does Paula's life feel more real by telling it as fiction, with invented dialogue and use of other novelistic devices, or does it make some readers question: 'is this what really happened?' This is, of course, an apples and pears argument. There is room for both. A Girl in White is constructed in alternate chapters, using Paula's story followed by that of Mathilde, Modersohn-Becker's real life daughter apparently returning on a journey in 1933 to discover her mother. This gives Hubbard the freedom not only to comment about what it means to be an artist – 'Sometimes I wonder if marriage is a state that's possible between creative people" – but also shows convincingly how the important sense of place, which inspired many of the artists she was writing about, later created a fertile ground for Nazi ideals to flourish.
Yet although I, as a biographer who deals in facts, cannot (or at least choose not to) invent dialogue, I can reveal the feelings of my subject either by quoting from diaries and letters or else by explaining that what my protagonist is doing indicates she must be feeling a particular emotion. There are myriad other ways of playing around with facts, starting with the selection of material in order to produce a volume of readable size. Non-fiction writers, just as much as novelists, need a strong narrative line, they need to find a pattern or shape in what might seem like random facts of a life or the work is in danger of becoming un-readable. At the same time I find the discipline of dates and fact checking oddly comforting, reassuring almost.
Most biographers struggle with the creative tension between a novelistic urge to tell a good story and scholarly drive to assemble facts and sources and stick to the chronology. The scholar and the storyteller are in permanent creative tension. It's what Virginia Woolf famously called the granite and the rainbow. At one level it might appear that a novelist who can jettison the facts at will has the easier task. Nothing can block his powers or invention. Henry James may have burned his papers but that has not stopped Colm Toibin (The Master) and David Lodge (Author, Author,) brilliantly re-imagining James's life in different ways. Not surprisingly perhaps, John Updike dismissed biographies as novels with an index.
And then there is the argument of the greater truth. The idea that even if an event didn't happen, well it ought to have done. Is our view of Florence Nightingale, Cardinal Manning and even Dr Arnold of Rugby, who 'perhaps' had short legs, indelibly inked on our brains thanks to Lytton Strachey's subtle interpretations in Eminent Victorians?
In trying to understand why biography has been so popular in England for the last century one reason, I believe, is in the satisfaction it offers. At its best it enables readers to grasp something of the complications not merely of interpreting facts but the frailty of the human condition. Part of the pleasure readers derive from the best biographies is that they have imaginatively entered another time, another place, another life. This is satisfying. After I finished Hubbard's novel I looked again at the paintings of Modersohn-Becker and, of course, saw them differently. They too were her children, but brought into the world at what cost. I could imagine myself there, in her bare Paris studio, as, starving, she fought for survival with nothing to eat for three days but a heel of stale baguette and a lump of old gruyere. In truth, she may have had more than this to eat but so what. As I said, it's apples and pears. Here's a fact: with her sudden death in 1907 the world lost a great talent. She was 31.


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We've waited for months (sometimes it seems like years!) for the debut of the first sections of the New Fantasyland in Disney World's Magic Kingdom, and now we can finally say…
Welcome to Storybook Circus!
Sections of Storybook Circus have been open for a while — we even scoped it out a bit here!
But today we're taking a more in-depth tour of Storybook Circus in the New Fantasyland — with a special emphasis on all the fantastic new FOOD, including the house-made caramel corn! But more about that later…
Occupying the area that was once Mickey's Toontown Fair, Storybook Circus is themed as an old-fashioned circus straight out of the picture books that I loved as a kid.
Here, you'll see plenty of touches that recall beloved scenes and a fun retro vibe from the classic film Dumbo, with lots of other Disney characters thrown in for good measure!
Big Top Souvenirs and Big Top Treats Show Kitchen
Big Top Souvenirs takes center stage in Storybook Circus. Inside the huge tent structure, you'll also find Big Top Treats right in the middle, complete with a show kitchen.
The sign outside hints at the treats inside, with teasers for cotton candy and caramel apples.
And cast members embrace the fun atmosphere! This guy with his puppets was hilarious! I totally wanted to tweak his clown nose. 🙂
Thoughtful touches surround you. But rather than straw, which you'd normally find on the ground under the big top, you look down and see this cool canvas flooring, "stitched" together like a tent. A fun touch from the Imagineers!
In the middle of the tent, you'll find the carousel-shaped Big Top Treats, with its promise of "circus snacks galore." Love it!
There's a nice assortment of traditional carnival fare here, but you'll also see a couple of cool things like Goofy's Glaciers slushie-type drinks (which you can also find at Goofy's Candy Company in Downtown Disney).
And you can also score lots of different Disney character apples.
Also a treat here: you can watch as cast members make your yummy snacks right before your eyes! This is a show kitchen like you'll find at the Main Street Confectionery in the Magic Kingdom, and the Candy Cauldron in Downtown Disney.
In the confections case, you see a nice assortment of cookies, cupcakes, krispy treats, cake pops, candy apples, and fudge. It's pretty much the same stuff you're going to find at any Disney World candy store these days, but it still looks great.
There are some neat ways that they've brought themeing to otherwise generic cupcakes. The little plaque of the Great Goofini nestled in the thick buttercream makes this cupcake extra special.
I imagine that you'll see lots of variations for different seasons at Big Top Treats as well. On the day we visited, I spied a Jack Skellington apple! Clearly the candy artists need a little practice on this one, but I bet it still tastes good. 😉
I thought it was interesting that there seemed to be a number of treats here that are very similar to those at the über popular Karamell Küche in Epcot's Germany Pavilion.
They have chocolate dipped fruit, and you'll find it here as well in the form of chocolate-covered fruit skewers.
Another similarity…caramel corn cupcakes! Interestingly, these are no longer served in Germany…
But what I was really here for was the House-made caramel popcorn! I'd been hearing about this for weeks, and I couldn't wait to try it. This is what Big Top Treats is touting the most out of all of their sweet snacks, so I was excited to finally be doing a review…
I loved the little Dumbo Delights sticker on the bag!
I waited until I was outside to dig in so that I could get a good daylight photo for you…
This caramel corn was good. Sweet and crunchy, and a large portion. But it didn't hold a candle to the version from Karamell Küche! I wonder if it's the difference in caramel? Either way, save your dough and spend it in Epcot on their caramel corn if you can!
That about does it for the snacks and treats inside the Big Top. Time to head back outside and see what the food carts feature.
Popcorn Wagon, Hot Dog Wagon, and Pretzel Wagon at Storybook Circus
There are several new food carts spread throughout Storybook Circus, featuring that fun Casey Jr. Circus Train theme that you'll find elsewhere in Fantasyland!
The first cart I spied was the Popcorn Cart…
Here, you'll find popcorn of course, but you'll also find an assortment of classic Disney frozen treats and bottled drinks as well. I love the "hand-lettered" sign and "painted" food items!
Next, I stumbled upon the Hot Dog Cart. This is your stop for hot dogs, chips, and more bottled water and soda.
I dig the lanterns hanging from the menus!
The roasted hot dogs looked drool-worthy! (Yes, I like hot dogs.)
You aren't going to find much to dress your dogs with here, so if you're looking for something a little snazzier, you might want to head to Casey's Corner where the menu options are more varied and the toppings are plentiful.
Pretzel aficionados will love this next one: the Pretzel Cart!
And that's not all the cool…you can choose from Mickey Shaped Pretzels (yay!) or Churros at this stop! There are also plastic cheese and chocolate dippers available.
I suspect some Disneyland snack influence in the themeing of this cart — and I love it!
As you leave the area, the opposite side of the "welcome" sign gives you a hearty "thank you" and hopes that you'll come back soon! I believe I shall.
I think Storybook Circus is a great addition to Fantasyland, and I can't wait to try each and every one of these fantastic treats. Let's hope they continue to come up with exclusive circus-themed snacks. After all, it's always fun to fall in love with something new and unique!
What treat are you most excited to try in Storybook Circus? Leave me a comment and tell me your thoughts!


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The easy part was getting rid of Mike Rice, something Rutgers had little choice in doing once the governor of New Jersey and the king of basketball weighed in on his videotaped transgressions.
Gov. Chris Christie wasn't going to have Rice remain as basketball coach at the state's flagship university, and quickly let it be known where he stood. So did LeBron James, in a tweet to his 7.8 million followers that was even more direct.
"If my son played for Rutgers or a coach like that he would have some real explaining to do and I'm still gone whoop on him afterwards!" James tweeted. "C'mon."
C'mon, indeed. You don't need to be a governor or a superstar to be outraged at the video of Rice kicking, shoving and shouting homophobic insults at players in practice. Anyone who watched the out-of-control coach abuse his young players likely came away with the same angry thought.
Anyone other than Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti, that is.
Oh, sure, Pernetti and university president Robert Barchi are on board now, expressing regret after firing Rice about how they handled the coach's initial punishment in December. Pernetti flat out said he was wrong, while Barchi released a statement saying he, too, had an epiphany of sorts after actually watching the tape Tuesday.
Apparently Barchi's change of heart came after he saw Rice throwing balls at players and calling them the kind of names that get people in fights at playgrounds around the country. For reasons known only to him, Barchi signed off on a punishment for Rice that included a three-game suspension and anger management courses without even bothering to watch the videotape back in December.
Had he done his job then, maybe Rutgers wouldn't be where it is now.
Their decision at the time didn't result in any great outcry because Pernetti and Barchi didn't say what exactly Rice had done to earn his suspension — which conveniently ended just before the school's Big East opener against Syracuse. Followers of the program were mostly perplexed about why their coach would have to sit out for what was vaguely referred to as inappropriate conduct and language.
I can't imagine what they were thinking when they went down the list of possible punishments. The physical abuse alone was a fireable offense, but the anti-gay slurs took it to a whole new level.
Three games and anger management courses? At a university where just three years ago, a student killed himself after his roommate used a webcam to spy on him kissing another man in his dorm.
My only guess is they thought the Rice video wouldn't surface. There can be no other explanation, because what is seen on the tape is so inflammatory that no reasonable person — much less leaders of our youth — could justify allowing Rice back on the court with the kids he was seen abusing.
And if they're that clueless in today's world of viral video then they need to go, too.
For botching the first punishment, yes. Maybe, too, for hiring Rice in the first place.
This was a coach so high-strung that he once knocked out his own father's tooth in a pickup game, a guy who coached on the edge and thought nothing of going over it. Other schools were scared away by his intensity, but Pernetti was so impressed that he said he viewed him as a "life coach" as well as a basketball coach when he hired him.
Pernetti said at the time he loved Rice's intensity, loved the way he interviewed. But maybe he should have paid more attention to what Rice said about himself in the Asbury Park Press after he was hired.
"When we go to practice, my formula is always to attack our best players," Rice told the paper. "Because they're the ones who need it the most, because they're the ones that have to do it at a higher level every night. They're the ones who are game-planned against. If you don't accept my energy, my intensity, my urgency, you're not going to do very well with me. Is my way of coaching right? No, but it works for me."
Or this nugget from his father — a former coach himself — that appeared in the Courier News of Bridgewater, N.J., about the same time.
"Sometimes Mike gets a little too intense with his teaching," Mike Rice Sr. said. "If you don't work as hard as he thinks you should, he lets you know it. I tell him, "Good thing you're not in the NBA; someone would throw you over the bleachers.' He tells me, "You were always way too soft on players.' "
The pressure to win in big-time college sports can be suffocating, so maybe Pernetti felt compelled to take a chance on a coach whose last team at Robert Morris had nine technical fouls in just one season. He went for the hard-charging coach, hoping an up-and-comer like Rice could light a fire under a program in desperate need of a turnaround.
It backfired horribly, and now there's a price to pay.
What is especially troubling is that neither Pernetti nor Barchi seemed inclined as late as Tuesday to get rid of Rice even as the video aired on ESPN and the ensuing firestorm threatened to envelop the program.
Rutgers will be a better place with a new coach who respects players and doesn't engage in homophobic name calling. Rice himself seemed to understand that when he spoke contritely outside his house Wednesday about the mistakes he made and the embarrassment he caused the university and his family.
No need to stop there, though. Not with the way this whole thing was botched.
It's time to replace the people at the top, too.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg


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Bellaterra 400100-BA-GYR Plantation 31 Inch Single Vanity in Brown Ash with Gray Granite Top and Rectangle Sink
The Plantation collection by Bellaterra Home features Plantation Style bathroom vanities that can accomplish any home design. From the cottage to the cabin or the grand home design, you will appreciate this beautifully hand-crafted piece of furniture as the focal point in your bathroom. The Plantation style wrought iron finish hardware enhances the unique look of this piece of art. The vanity is made with solid oak and plywood, topped with ash veneer to give the texture. It is hand applied with multiple layers of eco-friendly stain and top coat to prevent pealing, cracking, and fading. The interior finish is consistent throughout and matches the exterior finish. The cabinet structure is built with solid oak and has a full corner block on all corners for stability and to provide additional support for the countertop. It has one interior adjustable shelf for storage and a big opening for plumbing installation. This collection offers a variety of finishes. Each cabinet is configured to work with our variety of countertops or any standard-sized tops. This vanity is available in Brown Ash (Dark brown), Glacier Ash (White), Gray Ash (Light gray). This elegant bathroom vanity top features a 1.3" thick Black Galaxy granite preinstalled with a white undermount cUPC certified oval ceramic sink and a matching 4 in. H. backsplash for utmost beauty and functionality. It will easily match many home interiors. The vanity top is pre-drilled with 3 holes for an 8" widespread faucet and fits directly on top of a standard vanity cabinet (sold separately). Bellaterra Home's countertops are pre-sealed and polished for added protection. All genuine stone material has its variation of veining pattern and color; every top will be slightly different.
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The B&T GL-06 is a fully licensed replica grenade launcher, originally made by the Brügger & Thomet, Switzerland. The stock and receiver are made of polymer and the barrel and front guard is metal. All four side rails are metal and will support any accessories imaginable. A quick-remove front grip is supplied to make the GL-06 complete. The GL-06 launcher takes any length airsoft grenade, which is a device that looks like a real world grenade, but uses a gas propellant to fire a variety of projectiles, like large amounts of 6 mm BB's. When inserted in a grenade launcher, and fired, it shoots all the BB's at once with a big blast, great for room clearing and suppressive fire.
The GL-06 was developed in response to a recent request from the police force of a leading European nation which sought to obtain a non-lethal weapon for anti-riot application with the particular need for pin-point accuracy at standoff ranges (beyond 40 meters for such scenarios) when firing impact rounds. The GL-06 is lighter and more compact than other stand-alone weapons of the same class (such as the US M79 or German HK 69), yet it is capable of great accuracy, tactical flexibility and has good ergonomics. A special dedicated "less lethal" version of GL-06 is produced as the LL-06. Although the LL-06 is a variation of the GL-06, the main difference is the color of the frame. Both weapons are fully capable of firing a complete range of 40mm x 46 munitions.